Daughtry talks about new album, Pat Monahan

1 The tour with 3 Doors Down seems like a good fit. We've having a good time. We had a blast on the last tour and couldn't wait to get back and do it again.

2 Brad Arnold said his favorite Daughtry song is 'Tennessee Line. What's your favorite by 3 Doors Down? "Away from the Sun." I love the melody of that song and always have. I remember the first time I heard it, I thought it was an incredible song, and it's well-written and heavy.

3 Are you working on a follow-up to "Break the Spell?" I'm actually writing for the fourth record now. I've spent the last two days in Nashville writing, so when everyone else is having days off, me not so much. We're super-early in the process now; we're just getting started. We won't have anything to record until probably late spring or early summer.

4 You teamed up with DC Comics for the "We Can Be Heroes" campaign to fight hunger in Africa. So who's your superhero favorite? I've always been a Batman guy, no secret there. I've got Batman masks all over my house. It's always been like a weird childhood thing I never really grew out of.

5 'Gone Too Soon' is a powerful song; what inspired it? It was actually inspired by someone who just had a miscarriage. It was around the same time our twins were born. So it put me in this place where I (thought), 'I can't imagine going through that, and here we are celebrating the fact we just had two babies.' It was a difficult thing to wrap my head around.

6 And the song took on new meaning after Newton? Absolutely. We had been playing (it) for a while at that point, and when that happened, we were like, 'Man ... .' I felt like this song was written for a reason, and I wanted it to be of use to people. So we made it available for download so all the proceeds could go to helping those families.

7 Erie is Pat Monahan's hometown; do you know him? We keep in touch every now and then. We've done some writing together in the past. I love Pat. He's a great guy, and his voice is just incredible.